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But how comes it that while the All-Soul has produced a
kosmos, the soul of the particular has not, though it is of the
one ideal Kind and contains, it too, all things in itself?
We have indicated that a thing may enter and dwell at the same
time in various places; this ought to be explained, and the
enquiry would show how an identity resident simultaneously here
and there may, in its separate appearances, act or react- or
both- after distinct modes; but the matter deserves to be
examined in a special discussion.
To return, then: how and why has the All-Soul produced a kosmos,
while the particular souls simply administer some one part of it?
In the first place, we are not surprised when men of identical
knowledge differ greatly in effective power.
But the reason, we will be asked.
The answer might be that there is an even greater difference
among these souls, the one never having fallen away from the
All-Soul, but dwelling within it and assuming body therein, while
the others received their allotted spheres when the body was
already in existence, when their sister soul was already in rule
and, as it were, had already prepared habitations for them.
Again, the reason may be that the one [the creative All-Soul]
looks towards the universal Intellectual-Principle [the exemplar
of all that can be], while the others are more occupied with the
Intellectual within themselves, that which is already of the
sphere of part; perhaps, too, these also could have created, but
that they were anticipated by that originator- the work
accomplished before them- an impediment inevitable whichsoever of
the souls were first to operate.
But it is safer to account for the creative act by nearer
connection with the over-world; the souls whose tendency is
exercised within the Supreme have the greater power; immune in
that pure seat they create securely; for the greater power takes
the least hurt from the material within which it operates; and
this power remains enduringly attached to the over-world: it
creates, therefore, self gathered and the created things gather
round it; the other souls, on the contrary, themselves go forth;
that can mean only that they have deserted towards the abyss; a
main phase in them is drawn downward and pulls them with it in
the desire towards the lower.
The "secondary and tertiary souls," of which we hear, must be
understood in the sense of closer or remoter position: it is much
as in ourselves the relation to the Supreme is not identical from
soul to soul; some of us are capable of becoming Uniate, others
of striving and almost attaining, while a third rank is much less
apt; it is a matter of the degree or powers of the soul by which
our expression is determined- the first degree dominant in the
one person, the second, the third [the merely animal life] in
others while, still, all of us contain all the powers.
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